Alright fellow Oasis nerds, as I've already threatened you with it, I thought I might as well post it. Here's my humble attempt at an
recording sessions chronology for Don't Believe The Truth.
Like I said, due to all the confusions surrounding the making of this album, it's not easy to comprehend what exactly happened where and when and with whom. However, I've tried to work my way through the (luckily quite detailed) album and single credits, A LOT of interviews and A WHOLE LOT more of Google research.
I'll warn you beforehands, all of the following is, for the most part, pure ASSUMPTION and SPECULATION and these bits and pieces has been puzzled together from sometimes quite obscure sites (anyone remembers Kathy's Zak Oasis site? What a goldmine it is for this purpose). Moreover, apologies for almost not giving any sources for the loose notes and quotations. You will probably be able to trace them down if you just Google excerpts of it. It's mostly stuff that's been written and said that I've been just collecting in a really rough copy & paste manner for a while now.
If you're looking for an easy entry into the recording mess that is Don't Believe The Truth (what happened ecactly with DIV in Cornwall? Why Dave Sardy? Why Zak Starkey? etc.), try to look for a lenghty and insightful interview Noel and Gem gave to XFM in May 2005, it should be somewhere on Youtube. Please be free to diss me off, in that case I just ask for reasonable corrections as well. And no, I'm actually quite busy besides being an Oasis fan and I do have an intact social life, somehow.
Sawmills Studios, Cornwall, UK; January - March 2004 ("1 month of work"); other sources claim November 2003
Producers: Death In Vegas (Tim Holmes and Richard Fearless)
• A Bell Will Ring
• Boy With The Blues
• I Can See It Now [?]
• Lord Don’t Slow Me Down
• Mucky Fingers
• Record Machine [?]
• Stop The Clocks
• The Good Rebel [?]
• The Meaning Of Soul
• Those Swollen Hand Blues [?]
• Turn Up The Sun
• Velvet Building
(Rumuoured song titles, Early 2004)
• Down Into The Universe
• I Stand Alone
• Longer
• Revolution Man
• Say It
• Singin' Your Life
• The Roller
• They Ain't Got Nothing On Me, They Ain't Got Nothing On You
• You Wanna Feel My Shame
Notes:
- Planning began three or four months beforehands.
- 13 songs recorded with Terry Kirkbride on drums.
- “Five of the twelve tracks were going to be ones that we'd worked on.”
- "I've got about five songs done, Liam's got about six, and Gem's got a couple."
- 10 songs that they thought were pretty good, 4 on DBTT, 6 not even good enough for b-sides
- Turn Up The Sun and Keep The Dream Alive were demoed together by Andy Bell, A Bell Will Ring demoed on tour in Australia/October 2002
- Around ten songs were worked on with Death In Vegas of which, according to Noel, six were "not even good enough to make the b-sides".
- "We've done a bunch of really ****ing good demos and we put together a running order of what we thought the album was gonna be and we whittled it down to ten tracks."
- Demos with Alan White drumming exist.
- Sessions were "finished, not abandoned", but not mixed.
- Two month break afterwards.
Strangeway Studios, London, UK; Early 2004Producer: Noel Gallagher
Engineer and Mixer: Paul “Strangeboy” Stacey
• Let It Come Down Over Me [?]
• Let There Be Love (Piano, Bits and pieces) (final demo released on Let There Be Love single dvd)
• Mucky Fingers (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
• She Might Be One Of Us [?]
• Sittin’ Here In Silence On My Own (released on The Let There Be Love single)
• Those Swollen Hand Blues (released on Falling Down single)
Notes:
- Probably intended to be demos.
- Mixed by Paul Stacey (Strangeways is his studio)
- Drums by Terry Kirkbride.
Wheeler End Studios, Wycombe, UK; April – (19th at the latest) May 2004Producer: Noel Gallagher
Engineer: Jan ‘Stan’ Kybert
• A Bell Will Ring
• Guess God Thinks I'm Abel [?]
• Let There Be Love (Bits and pieces) (final demo released on Let There Be Love single dvd)
• Lord Don’t Slow Me Down (released as a single) (Liam version released on leaked CD 2008)
• Lyla [Smiler] (released on Lyla single dvd)
• Love Like A Bomb [?]
• Part Of The Queue [?]
• The Importance Of Being Idle (Acoustic take released on The Importance Of Being Idle single dvd, a "real" demo probably never existed)
• The Meaning Of Soul
• The Quiet Ones (released on The Importance Of Being Idle single)
• Turn Up The Sun [?]
• Weight Of The World [?]
• Won’t Let You Down (released on Lyla single)
Notes:
B-sides and Lord Don’t Slow Me Down mixed by Jan ‘Stan’ Kybert. Won’t Let You Down produced by Liam & Gem, mixed by Kybert. The Quiet Ones produced and mixed by Oasis.
Drums by Zark Starkey. Drums on Lord Don’t Slow Me Down by Terry Kirkbride.
- Lyla and TIBIO pretty much the released versions.
- After a short break in which many new songs, including “Love Like A Bomb”, “The Importance Of Being Idle”, “Guess God Thinks I’m Abel”, “Part Of The Queue”, "Let There Be Love (written in 1998, finished in DIV pause)" and "Lyla" were written, the band reconvened at their Wheeler End Studios with Noel as producer.
- In June 2004, Oasis debuted two new songs from these sessions, the Liam-written "The Meaning of Soul" and the Gem-written "A Bell Will Ring".
- Noel explained that they started out recording the album with Death In Vegas, but ran out of time due to DIV's other commitments. So they then tried to combine that material with other demo material they had done already, but that didn't work. Then they were just going to release the demos. But because they had Alan drumming on them, that would have been a problem. Then they thought they'd just get Zak to drum on the demos that were already done, but that didn't sound right as the drums were going on last. Which led straight to the 'f*** it, we're starting from scratch' approach. Noel said they never completely scrapped it, but during all this time, more and more songs were being written, so there was more to choose.
- 14 days only, scrapped again.
- "A Couple of months" break afterwards, while waiting for Zak Starkey finishing his tour with The Who.
Songs that I couldn't allocate to any session, but that -might- have been attempted during the DBBT sessions at this point or later
• God Help Us All
• Guess I'm Out Of Time (apparently demoed in 2004/2005) at Oasis’ studio)
• I Stand Alone/The Morning Son
• Let It Come Down Over Me (Leaked on NG Demos 2010)
• Man Of Misery
• Soldier On
• Sweet And Sour
• The Good Rebel
• Wind Up Dream
Olympic Studios, London, UK; 2004; (After 9th) August 2004Producer: Dave Sardy
• A Bell Will Ring (Leaked CD 2008?)
• Love Like A Bomb (Leaked CD 2008?)
• Turn Up The Sun (Leaked CD 2008?)
• More...
Notes:
- Manager Marcus Russell met Sardy, sent him tracks to mix, sounded like ‘Frankenstein’.
- “We sent Sardy a few tracks of this cobbled-together stuff to mix and he sent them back and it didn't sound right. So we've started from scratch bar one song [Mucky Fingers].”
- Dave Sardy expressed interest in taking over production duties. Sardy was given tapes of existing recording sessions to mix, and after his work was praised by the band, he arrived in the UK to oversee new recording sessions at Olympic Studios in London. These sessions did not last long before he asked the band to travel to Los Angeles and re-record most of the album there.
- We have got four tracks down but there is still another six or seven to do. "We've spent almost a year recording but we haven’t got the sound right — but the songs are good."
- “We've finished about 4 tracks now, so I think , hopefully in an ideal world we'll have a single out by the end of the year but it's probably looking like it'll be Feb next year.”
- We’ve written 66 songs, the majority of which I can’t believe our kid’s done. I’ve only written 14 of them. He’s done most of the rest of them."
- 2 weeks of recordings.
- Drums by Zak Starkey.
Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, US; October - November 2004Producer: Dave Sardy
• Ain’t Got Nothin’ (Leaked CD 2008?)
• Eyeball Tickler (Leaked CD 2008?)
• Guess God Thinks I’m Abel
• I Wanna Live In A Dream In My Record Machine (released on leaked CD 2008 and Faster Than The Speed Of Magic)
• Keep The Dream Alive
• Let There Be Love (Bits and pieces)
• Part Of The Queue
• Pass Me Down The Wine
• Stop The Clocks (released on leaked CD 2008 and Faster Than The Speed Of Magic)
• The Boy With The Blues
• The Meaning Of Soul (Leaked CD 2008?)
• Untitled Liam songs 1&2
Notes:
- Some songs might have been attempted or demoed before, certainly more has been recorded.
- Recording sessions began at Capitol Studios in October 2004 with the band spending around 9 weeks there.
- In late October, the Gallaghers were spotted out and about in LA. Apparently some recording did take place of at the Capitol Building, while the majority of the stay was spent mixing and overdubbing at Village Recording Studios.
- "The album’s finished. We recorded it three times. It’s been a major pain in the arse but it’s come out really good"
- 9 weeks spent in Los Angeles including 3-4 weeks of mixing.
- 11 songs left over that were very good.
- Oasis have 66 songs vying for a place on their sixth studio album, due out early next year.
- Noel revealed that he still has 25 songs left from the sessions for ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’, and suggested that that will mean he won’t have to “any more work for the next few years”. These songs include the much talked-up ’Stop The Clocks’, of which Noel has now tired, revealing, “There are so many versions of that song now we could put it out as an EP on its own!”
- Noel recently explained that he had four “great” songs left over from the ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’ sessions.
- Drums by Zak Starkey.
The Village, Los Angeles, US; December 2004Producer: Dave Sardy
• A Bell Will Ring (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
• Eyeball Tickler (released on Lyla single)
• Guess God Thinks I’m Abel (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
• Keep The Dream Alive (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
• Love Like A Bomb (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
• Lord Don’t Slow Me Down
• Part Of The Queue (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
• Pass Me Down The Wine (released on The Importance Of Being Idle single)
• Stop The Clocks
• The Importance Of Being Idle (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
• The Meaning Of Soul (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
• The Boy With The Blues
• Turn Up The Sun (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
Notes:
- Mixing by Dave Sardy.
- Drums by Zak Starkey, except on Part Of The Queue by Lenny Castro.
- Stop The Clocks, Lord Don’t Slow Me Down & Boy With The Blues nearly made the cut.
- Keep The Dream Alive was going to be the last song on the album (ending with movie quote cut out).
Metropolis Studios, London, UK; February 2005Producer: Dave Sardy
• Let There Be Love (Mix) (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
• Lyla (Additional Production) (released on Don’t Believe The Truth)
Notes:
- Let There Be Love mixed and Lyla finished by Dave Sardy on the record companies’ request.
Snake Ranch, London, England, UK; May 2005Producer: UNKLE
• Cast No Shadow [UNKLE Beachhead Mix] (released on Goal OST)
• Morning Glory [D Sardy Mix] (released on Goal OST)
• Who Put The Weight Of The World On My Shoulders? (released on Goal OST)
Notes:
- Bass on CNS and MG by Jeordie White, bass on WPTWONM by Gem.
- Drums by Terry Kirkbride.
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